The Principal′s Guide to School Budgeting

by Richard D. Sorenson (Editor), Lloyd Milton Goldsmith

This unique budgetary survival guide will enhance your instructional, technical, and managerial skills not only as the school′s leader but also as the school′s visionary, planning coordinator, and budgeting manager.

Genres: Education, School

232 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 2006

Reviews

[Tricia Donley]

While it wasn’t the most thrilling read, it was educational! I took a lot away from it.

[Traci]

I mean, it's budgeting? haha It helped with my Finance course and I did take away some information from it.

[Ryan Boomershine]

Worse than it sounds.

Mercifully, I sold the book on Amazon before I got to the very end. I guess I'll never know how it turns out.

[Cordel Finton]

Sorenson and Goldsmith are descriptive and analytical in their approach to discussing school budgeting. This is as close to an objective approach as we can get, which is good, but it leads to at times unbearably dry and dense writing. For example, "Such thinking exemplifies the parameters by which school leaders utilize differing strategies for working with the learning community and readily correlate with the collaborative statements attributed to W. Edwards Deming in the introductory quote," (151). If effective writers are able to write the way they sound, then the authors of this book must be AI. I understand it's difficult to spice-up discussion on school finance and policy, but the analytical approach to ethical discussions make it wordy and pretentious at times.

[Susan Garcia]

Solid attempt to demystify the confusing subject of school budgeting. The basic, simple presentation made understanding the challenging topic much easier. Great book for the novice administrator. The addition of case studies kept the reader interested.

[Mills College Library]

371.20609 S7138 2006

[Anne]

Just about as exciting as the title implies...